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In one of my previous posts, I mentioned having a skill-up programme to hold on May 1st, in which I had to revise on some certain skills so that I would be able to teach them well. I intended the class to not be too advanced, to be very simple to understand and to have it in a way that people could stay through the training for 6 hours.

My teaching would focus on 4 elements, which are Excel, MySQL, Power BI, and Python for Data Analysis. And first of all, I needed Excel on my system. I figured out that the Excel application I had was the 2010 version, which is very old to use. I went on to do a research on how I could get Excel or Microsoft Office 2021 and I was able to find out how to do it and guess what? It was totally free. I didn't have to pay a dime and I had access to the full features of Microsoft Office.


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So I will be sharing the process here on how to get the Microsoft 2021 Package, along with some screenshots of how I got it done. So let's go there.

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### <center>Getting Microsoft Office 2021 for Free</center>

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**1.** The first thing that is needed is to go to your local disc (C:), create a folder, and name it **MS Office Setup**.


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**2.** The next step is to search for MS Configuration Tool and click on the link as shown in the image.


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**3.** After opening the link, make sure that you have set your architecture type to either 32-bit or 64-bit and then select "**Microsoft LTSC Professional Plus 2021 - Volume License**" under the office suites. Under the languages section, select your primary language and then click export.


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<center>Make sure the file that you downloaded is saved in the MS Office Suite folder you created earlier.</center>


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**4.** Then the next thing to do is to search for "MS Office Deployment Tool" on Google and then click on the first link.



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**5.** Then you just need to click download and make sure the file you downloaded is saved in the MS Office Suite



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**6.** Run the Office Deployment tool

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<sub>_Click on the box to accept Microsoft terms_</sub>

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<sub>_Make sure that you select the MS Office Setup folder you created initially_</sub>

After doing this, the remaining configuration files would be extracted to the folder.

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**7.** Then the next step is to go run Command Prompt as Administrator.


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Then type this in:


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After completing this, you would have your office installed on your device.

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After following all through this process, this was how I was able to get Microsoft Office installed in my PC. 

Here is my video source if you want to watch through this tutorial:

https://youtu.be/Tq03Q-O7py4?si=X-oV9McX6PckOFYc






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